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Re: xmltv: what's the best way to keep it up-to-date?



On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 03:23:53PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 20:08 +0100, Chris Butler wrote:
> > I'm the maintainer for the package 'xmltv', a set of utilities that download
> > TV listings data from various websites. Due to the nature of such programs,
> > they have a habit of breaking every now and then when the source websites
> > change. Evidently this is a problem in a stable release.
> > 
> > My first instinct is to think that this makes xmltv a candidate for being
> > maintained in volatile (I asked about this first on debian-volatile[1], but
> > I'm yet to receive any feedback from that).
> 
> Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
> 
> The agenda for the release team meeting next weekend includes a
> discussion on the future scope and operation of volatile, so we're
> deferring a decision on this case until after that.

Upstream for xmltv are currently working towards another release to fix
another couple of issues that have cropped up since my last message on this…

Any thoughts on what I should do about the package for squeeze?

-- 
Chris Butler <chrisb@debian.org>
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